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I had a little box lock flintlock I gave to a friend after owning it about ten years and shooting maybe fifty shots in it. I had one of those duckfoot three barrel in .36 smooth. I had picked it up on a trade, fired it a few times at some voos and left it on a blanket shoot prize blanket. There were maybe ten shooters and it was the third or forth prize to be picked up.
Their cute factor wares off quickly.
 
crockett said:
Anyone shoot Derringers, box locks, etc. Just wondering.


Yep, fun little guns, I like small guns.
Some of mine.
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Small revolvers count?
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William Alexander
 
Well....I made a 22 cal underhammer....also a 22
wheel lock with a 3"barrel...cute.
 
Here in UK you'd have to be pretty serious about wanting to shoot any of the small and unusual stuff you've seen on this thread that are still shootable.

The problem is that owning an antique is the easy bit, it's the shooting of it that can pose a problem.

See, unless you are a full member of a gun club, you can't have a Firearms Certificate that authorises you to shoot such a gun - they are ALL treated exactly the same way as if you were shooting any modern firearm in any calibre - like a Accuracy International in .338 Lapua Magnum.

Same with ANY replica - any and ALL firing replicas are treated as same as any modern firearm.

As you might imagine, all this tends to crimp your enthusiasm somewhat.

Firing one when nobody is looking, and getting found out and snitched on by some 'well-meaning' person, puts you in a competition where the top winner can earn a five-year-long vacation, with food and clothing, in one of Her Majesty's big grey hotels.

tac
 
I like what you did to your pistol. For me, it makes the pistol even more interesting. :thumbsup:
 
I would like to have one of those .31 cal. pocket pistols one day. An avid CW reenactor friend of mine carries one and says it has saved his life on many occasions. But, his 'normal' speech is in CW period first person so I'm not so sure that it actually-factually has.
BTW, to see a selection of unusual pistols one needs to visit the Saunders Museum at Berryville, Arkansas. Poorly curated but a fascinating collection. BTW-2 :eek:ff Don't believe everything you read about the original Bowie knife they have on display. :shake:
 
I guess this would fit a "non typical" definition even though during the mid 1800's little self defense guns like this were very popular.

It was built by me from a kit back around 1994.
It is a .36 caliber smooth bore with a brass hexagon barrel and a "box lock" with the hammer in line with the barrel.

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I've only shot it a few times to say I had and I've used it several times to fire a blank powder load on the 4th of July.

This pistol is one of those stolen from my house in 2014 so if you see it for sale, consider it stolen (although I forgot to tell the Police about it at the time.)
 
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